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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 11, 2024

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Hamas's Gaza Strip leader Yahya Sinwar in a tunnel in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, October 10, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Many Hamas fighters in Rafah fleeing northward -- official

Sinwar not hiding in Rafah, officials tell ToI, as PM publicly prioritizes IDF op there

Officials say recent intel placed the Hamas leader in underground tunnels around Khan Younis, as the accused October 7 mastermind continues to elude Israeli forces in Gaza

IDF calls on Gazans to leave additional Rafah neighborhoods as it presses operation

By Emanuel Fabian

300,000 have left southern Gaza city to ‘humanitarian zone,’ military assesses; IDF also gearing up for fresh operation in north Gaza’s Jabaliya, as Hamas renews presence there

Palestinians sit on a cart as they move to safer areas in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 10, 2024. (AFP)

IDF soldiers standing atop a battle tank as part of the Givati Brigade operating in eastern Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in a handout picture released on May 10, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces/AFP)

US: Ongoing IDF op in Rafah doesn’t amount to major offensive we’ve warned against

Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa to the Netherlands Vusimuzi Madonsela checks his phone during a hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, January 12, 2024. (Patrick Post/AP)

South Africa asks World Court to order Israel to withdraw from Rafah

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Results of a UN General Assembly vote on a resolution for the Security Council to reconsider and support the full membership of Palestine into the United Nations, displayed at the UN headquarters in New York City on May 10, 2024. (Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Israel's Erdan shreds copy of UN charter: 'Shame on you'

UN General Assembly adopts resolution boosting standing of Palestinian mission

By Reuters and Jacob Magid

Overwhelming vote urges UNSC to reconsider statehood bid; move gives Palestinians spot in UNGA’s member’s hall, but not voting rights; Israel slams ‘prize for Hamas’

(Clockwise from top left) Sgt. Itay Livny, Sgt. Yosef Dassa, Sgt. Daniel Levy and Sgt. Ermiyas Mekuriyaw who were killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip on May 10, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

Four IDF soldiers killed as battles rage across Gaza; tanks said to advance into Rafah

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Security cabinet said to approve measured expansion of op in southern part of Strip, risking clash with Biden; dozens of gunmen killed in fighting, tunnels found

Hamas leaders Muhammad Deif (L) and Yahya Sinwar (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

May 11: US said offering info on Gaza tunnel locations if Israel skips mass Rafah op

Israel finishes 5th in Eurovision, amid protest outside * Biden: There’d be a truce ‘tomorrow’ if Hamas frees the hostages * Daughter-in-law of hostage arrested at Tel Aviv protest

8:57 pm

Biden: There'd be a Gaza ceasefire 'tomorrow' if Hamas frees the hostages
8:47 pm

Rocket warning sirens activated in towns near Lebanon border
8:44 pm

US said offering Israel 'sensitive intel' on Hamas leaders' whereabouts if no major Rafah op

Analysis

After Biden arms freeze, Israel can still fight in Rafah. Lebanon is a different story

Stuck in a long war against Hamas, Israel needs a steady US weapons supply to be prepared for a war on Hezbollah — which is now likely to be more aggressive

US President Joe Biden, with Vice President Kamala Harris (L) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R), speaks about the Hamas atrocities against Israelis, and pledges unstinting support for Israel, in the State Dining Room of the White Houses in Washington, DC, on October 10, 2023. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

File: Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat, and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat, attend a vigil for Israeli victims of Hamas's October 7 massacre on the steps of the US Capitol Building, October 12, 2023. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images via JTA)

‘We cannot undermine our ally Israel’: 26 Democrats pan Biden’s hold up of weapons

By JTA and ToI Staff

A US C-17 sits with crates of American munitions for Israel at the Nevatim Air Base, October 13, 2023. (AP Photos/Lolita Baldor)

ExplainerWho are Israel’s key weapons suppliers, and who has halted exports since Oct. 7?

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israeli Eurovision contestant Eden Golan rehearsing her song "Hurricane" on the eve of the final of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) 2024 on May 10, 2024 at the Malmo Arena, Sweden. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Swedish police: 20,000 set to protest Eden Golan’s participation in Eurovision final

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli singer booed by audience at Friday evening rehearsal; reinforced security system at Malmo Arena designed to discourage anti-Israel protesters from approaching the venue

Joost Klein representing the Netherlands gestures, during a press conference after the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest, at the Malmo Arena, in Malmo, Sweden, May 9, 2024. (Jessica Gow/TT News Agency via AP)

Dutch Eurovision entry axed from contest after ‘incident’ with female production worker

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli Eurovision contestant Eden Golan rehearsing her song "Hurricane" on the eve of the final of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) 2024 on May 10, 2024 at the Malmo Arena, Sweden. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Israel’s Eurovision success sparks boycott calls; Dutch singer pulled from rehearsal

By Agencies and Amy Spiro

Navigating the queer community as an Israeli-American

After feeling excluded from the LGBTQ+ community, I found connection with queer and trans Zionists on social media

In 2024, we are all Theodor Herzl

The genocide libel against Israel parallels the Dreyfus Affair, except that now Jewish students have the tools to combat hate…and win

IDF unleashes wave of strikes on southern Lebanon

Hezbollah fires barrage of rockets at Kiryat Shmona, causing blazes, property damage

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Military says out of 35 rockets launched, 15 downed by Iron Dome; terror group says salvo in response to killing of technician, rescue worker for Hezbollah ally

A screenshot of a Google spreadsheet titled, "Is your fav author a zionist" that shows a list of authors that the document's creators deem pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian. (Google screenshot)

‘Is your fav author a zionist?’: Viral list sparks antisemitism fears among authors

By PHILISSA CRAMER

List posted online categorizes writers as ‘Pro-Israel/Zionist,’ ‘Pro-Palestinian/Anti-Zionist,’ various types of ‘It’s complicated,’ or ‘Both sides-ing it’

Illustrative: CSS has trained over 4,000 volunteers across the country to protect Jewish organizations. (Courtesy of CSS/via JTA)

At US retreat, volunteer guards train to protect synagogues in post-Oct. 7 world

‘Don’t stand like a mezuzah at the door’: Demand for instruction rises sharply following Hamas attack; drills adapted to include counter-protest tactics

A picture taken in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on December 7, 2023, shows an Israeli fighter jet dropping flares over Gaza. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

US: Israel’s assurances on weapons use ‘credible,’ but ‘reasonable’ to assess otherwise

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Seemingly contradictory report ordered by Biden clears way for further arms transfers, while asserting IDF likely breached international humanitarian law in specific cases

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with US President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

AnalysisWith their jobs on the line, Biden and Netanyahu tested to push through fraught ties

By AAMER MADHANI, Zeke Miller and Julia Frankel

File: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Defense Minister Yoav Galant hold a joint press conference in Jerusalem, on December 26, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90 )

Gallant blasts Smotrich for mid-war holdup of fighter jet procurement

By Emanuel Fabian

Demonstrators protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, May 6, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘Bring home the dead and the living’: Hostages’ families rally ahead of Memorial Day

Families of captives declared dead in Gaza speak in Tel Aviv, alongside French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy; anti-government protests urging elections to be held nationwide

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is interviewed on the Dr. Phil Primetime show on Merit Street Media from Jerusalem on May 9, 2024. (Screen capture/YouTube)

In 1st, PM accepts some responsibility for Oct. 7: ‘I hold myself and everyone on this’

Adi Gabay (Dafna Talmon)

Adi Gabay45-year-old Kibbutz Re'im. Her eldest son was murdered on Oct. 7

'I want to raise my head and look forward. I don't see myself not going back to the kibbutz. As far as I'm concerned that is part of Amit's last will'

By Tamar Mor Sela

A joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial day ceremony in Tel Aviv, April 24, 2023 (Gili Getz)

'The loss and the grief are equal for everyone'

Amid war, Israeli and Palestinian peace activists take annual joint memorial online

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Controversial Memorial Day commemoration, filmed in advance this year, will be virtual to avoid having all-Israeli crowd, with West Bank Palestinians barred from Israel since Oct. 7

Tents are set up by pro-Palestinians students outside the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford, May 9, 2024 (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

As pro-Palestinian encampments spread to UK campuses, Sunak seeks to head off unrest

By Agencies and ToI Staff

British PM meets with university heads after warning of antisemitism, with ‘students and academic staff being targeted, threatened, and assaulted simply for being Jewish’

Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park, Michigan. (Courtesy Detroit Jewish News via JTA)

Cops probing self-proclaimed ‘Jew hater’ for yelling slurs at Detroit-area synagogue

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A line of police in riot gear walk past police dismantling pro-Palestinian encampment at MIT, before dawn Friday, May 10, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

Police dismantle anti-Israel encampment at MIT, begin clearing at other campuses

By AP and ToI Staff

The rear view of the old Mekor Haim synagogue. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

The tragic pre-1948 history of Jerusalem’s now-posh Mekor Haim neighborhood

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

The Jewish enclave south of the capital was subject to brutal Arab attacks, and holds a memorial for 12 men killed fighting for it in the War of Independence

More Headlines

The northern lights flare in the sky over a farmhouse, May 10, 2024, in Brunswick, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Intense solar storm causes spectacular northern lights displays across the globe

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers work on armored military vehicles at a staging ground near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

12 soldiers stung by wasp swarm after tank runs over nest in southern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and Michael Horovitz

Two environmental activists attack a glass case containing an original copy of the Magna Carta at the British Library on May 10, 2024 (Screencapture X: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Environmentalists attack case holding Magna Carta copy in London, document unharmed

By AP

Lebanese comedian Shaden Fakih delivers her Stand-Up Baladi set during an episode of her 'Shaden' show uploaded to Youtube on May 18, 2022. (Screen capture: Youtube/Cinemoz and awk.word, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Lebanese Islamic authorities file ‘blasphemy’ charges against comedian for prayers skit

By AFP

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